Although it may not necessarily be a tunnel for people to pass through, there must be a large ground fissure extending all the way here.
If this is the case, then if you want to leave here, you don't necessarily need to return to the previous underground cavity to find oxygen bottles, and then return the same way at greater risk.
The pressure on his shoulders suddenly decreased, but Bai Ning would not be stupid enough to let down his guard in this dangerous place.
Continuing to move forward for a certain distance, some stone building remains suddenly appeared on the ground, which instantly proved that there was indeed an ancient ruin here.
Strong flashlights were shined everywhere, and some severely decayed wooden buildings were gradually revealed. Very classic ancient wooden attics, even though they had become ruins, the cornices and corners were still vaguely visible.
Continuing to go deeper, a large number of blackened carbonization marks began to appear, which should be the traces of a long-standing fire.
Perhaps, this fire is the fundamental reason why the air in other ancillary chambers is thin and the carbon dioxide content is high.
Collapsed pitch-black beams can be seen everywhere. Even if part of them is burned down, they are still as thick as a few people hugging each other. These beams alone can give a glimpse of the grandeur and vastness of this underground palace.
This underground palace has been burned down, and there does not seem to be any trace of the existence of a dragon. Even if Liu Cheng comes here, what can he do?
The cruel blood sacrifice ceremony on the ship was still vivid in Bai Ning's mind. Where could Liu Cheng, who was in a special state, hide now?
With a series of unanswered questions, Bai Ning slowly wandered through this huge ruins.
Every broken wall and ruin under his feet is a piece of history, but it is a pity that Bai Ning is unable to interpret it. This place may have been infinitely glorious, but now it is nothing.
Without its functional value, this ancient ruin is no different from the desolate weeds that can be seen everywhere.
The longer Bai Ning stayed in these ruins, the more Bai Ning felt that there was no point in staying here.
Patiently, he continued to patrol, and soon he came to a stone square. Everything here was well preserved. A coiling dragon stone pillar standing in the center reminded Bai Ning of the places he had seen in the Tunguska area before. Pillars.
The Panlong Pillar is not uncommon in the Chinese architectural system. It is the embodiment of a dragon totem. Feeling a little excited, Bai Ning quickly came to the vicinity of the Panlong Pillar.
It wasn't until he got closer that Bai Ning saw the majesty of this coiled dragon pillar. It was as thick as three or four people could hold it together, and it was forty or fifty meters high. The five-clawed golden dragon was carved lifelikely, and its powerful body texture looked like a real dragon. The dragon hovers above the stone pillar.
Bai Ning looked around, perhaps staring for too long, so that Bai Ning seemed to hear a faint dragon roar from a long time ago.
After being stunned for a moment, Bai Ning tried to reach out and touch the coiled dragon pillar in front of him, but he always felt as if something was blocking the way between them.
This layer of air wall is looming, like the legendary dragon's power, preventing insignificant mortals from desecrating it.
His eyes suddenly closed, and his palms quickly touched the cold stone pillar.
No strange illusions appeared in Bai Ning's mind, and his hands were cold, the most familiar touch of stone.
Apart from the previous oppression of dragon power based on the visual level, this is just an ordinary stone.
I tried to open my eyes, but suddenly I felt like I was being empowered by a dragon.
A majestic golden dragon suddenly opened its mouth and bit at Bai Ning. The fear of being swallowed instantly hit Bai Ning's heart, causing him to subconsciously let go of the palm he was touching.
This kind of purely psychological deterrence is very strange. It obviously does not cause any substantial harm, but it can make people feel the fear of facing the ancient dragon.
This kind of feedback can no longer be attributed solely to the expressiveness of the dragon sculpture. There must be some spiritual level restrictions attached to this coiled dragon pillar, and it may even involve soul level restrictions.
The entire ancient ruins have become ruins. If Liu Cheng's final destination is here, then he will definitely come to this symbolic Coiling Dragon Pillar.
Based on his priority to set off, if Liu Cheng comes, he may have already arrived.
While his heart condensed, Bai Ning suddenly looked at the top of the Panlong Pillar. Could there be something else on the top of the stone pillar hidden in the darkness?
Just as Bai Ning was about to climb up the relief, some liquid suddenly dripped from the top of the Panlong Pillar.
The dripping patter adheres to the dragon sculpture on the coiled dragon pillar, showing an unusual purple-red luster under the illumination of a strong flashlight.
It felt like dried blood.
However, how could the liquid that had just fallen dry up instantly?
Feeling horrified for unknown reasons, Bai Ning stepped back a few steps and completely left the range of the Panlong Pillar.
The slightly sprinkled liquid gradually became denser, and the smell of blood in the air became more intense, just like the beginning of another blood sacrifice ceremony.
In this desolate land, what source of blood could there be?
The only possibility is Liu Cheng who came here one step ahead!
Is he trying to summon something with his own blood?
Shenlong?
It is basically impossible to cover such a huge stone pillar with blood with one person's blood volume.
This also seems to mean that Liu Cheng will eventually die here.
Watching everything that was happening coldly, there was no intention of letting anything fall from the top of the Panlong Pillar, and there was no change happening here.
An ordinary darkness, an ordinary blood mist, an ordinary huge stone pillar.
These three may together form an astonishing spectacle, but at that moment, they were just the most ordinary aggregates of matter in the world.
The only thing that can change all this is time.
The blood mist falling from the darkness has already exceeded the amount of blood lost by the human body in death, and the entire huge stone pillar also turned black and red in the process.
The dragon eagle, which was full of powerful and domineering looks before, is now also full of evil feelings.
The blood dragon appears, what does this mean?
What's more, this is just a stone dragon.
Even though there was no movement around him, Bai Ning felt that the bearded captain should be hiding among them.
This was the blood sacrifice scene he had been waiting for. Even if Bai Ning was standing by, wouldn't he dare to come out and snatch some of the fruits that were about to appear?
What's more, apart from a slender iron speargun, Bai Ning didn't seem to have much that could compete with the bearded captain.
At this time, he still did not appear, probably because Bai Ning's existence also had some special uses.
Could he, Bai Ning, also be part of the blood sacrifice?
Or, if something unexpected happens during the blood sacrifice, people standing nearby will be affected by unpredictable accidents.
Thoughts in his heart were in turmoil. The Panlong Pillar in front of him had become more and more bloody and evil. Bai Ning could only retreat slowly.
After retreating to a distance that the light beam could reach, the blood mist lingering near the Coiling Dragon Pillar still showed no intention of stopping, and even began to grow larger as time went by.
Gradually, the Panlong Pillar seemed to be hidden in the hazy blood mist, and the overall shape began to become ethereal.
It seemed that there was some kind of visual deviation, or maybe it was just because he stared for too long and the distance was too far. The giant dragon climbing on the dragon pillar began to gradually wake up.
A sky-shattering dragon roar representing awakening vibrated in this vast underground cavity, causing the stone ground where Bai Ning was standing to tremble slightly.
Before he could recover from such a heart-shaking huge dragon roar, the stone dragon peeled off from the Coiling Dragon Pillar and turned into a swimming dragon floating in the blood mist.
The blood mist at this time was like a pool of bright red sea water, carrying a resurrected stone dragon swimming in it, recovering, and finally successfully transformed into a dragon.
Is this the meaning of blood sacrifice?
With the help of the bloodline power of the Yulong clan's descendants, the stone dragon that was sealed on the Coiling Dragon Pillar was successfully resurrected.
If this phenomenon were just a circulating ancient myth, it might still have some value in talking about it, but if it really appeared in front of Bai Ning, he would prefer to understand it as an illusion.
Whether it is from the material level, the energy level, or the recently familiar soul level, it is impossible to resurrect a dragon that is many times larger than it through the blood of one person. .
What's more, Bai Ning had actually touched the stone dragon on the Panlong Pillar before. No matter how lifelike it was carved, giving the viewer a natural sense of pressure, it was only a part of the stone.
A stone is a stone, a polymer of silicate inorganic matter. No matter how much blood is used to soak it, it cannot become an organic life form.
If the process of creation can be completed with just a little blood, then creation, which is said to be something that only God and Nuwa can accomplish, would be too childish.
At the current stage of the development of human science and technology, the most it can do is to artificially synthesize some proteins. It is almost impossible to reorganize various proteins into a completely new life form that can use the genome to copy itself.
It is precisely because of the difficulty of creation that it is mystified and sanctified.
After analyzing it to this point, it seems that Bai Ning was just confused by the blood mist produced out of thin air. If he wants to break through the confusion and discover the absolute truth, he should boldly walk into the blood mist.
You can even climb to the top along the Panlong Pillar to have a look.
However, Bai Ning was never able to take this step.
This is not out of fear, but out of awe of the dragon.
Bai Ning could also feel a sense of majesty and oppression in this dragon that was swimming in the blood mist.
If a cruel sacrificial method like blood sacrifice cannot resurrect a divine dragon, then what about summoning the dragon soul sealed in the dragon column?
